A Man from Mesopotamia Ur of Chaldeans, specifically Karemlash! Left to Europe … later to the New World … a journey around the world … experiences … difficulties … Spiritual life … Different people … Different cultures … Different languages … (Aramaic - Arabic - Italian - French - English) who knows what else… On his way to follow the word of God … and His beloved Son JESUS CHRIST * Forever.

Saturday, July 02, 2005

A Churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now, "he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

All right ... now that you're done reading ..send it on!!! I think everyone should read this!! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?!!"

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Yesterday was the feast of St. Peter and Paul.And on this day I have complete 7 years of Priesthood, my Ordintion was on June-29-1998.

Our beloved Patriarch opened the new and 1st Chaldean Monastery in the U.S. Down are some pictures of the event. The day was long, and we were out in “Riverside.” At the evening we were invited at the house of a Chaldean family their, and after dinner we have enjoyed playing “Our Baseball” since it was 1st time for all of us as priests to touch the baseball stick. Nevertheless, we have made the kids stay on a long distance from us watching our long (crazy) shoots. Anyway, after 30 minutes, all the balls were just disappeared!BUT WE WON!

Sunday, June 26, 2005

His Beatitude Mar Emmanuel III Dally opened today Sunday at 9:30 A.M. the Craft Fair in St. Michael’s Chaldean Catholic Church. Most of the products are made by the young choir of the church. Our Eparchial (Diocesan) Bishop Mar Sarhad Jammo assit the opening along with Msgr. Phillip Najim the Patriarchal Delegate toward the Holy See, Fr. Sabri Qjbo the Vicar General of the Diocese, and Fr. Felix Shabi the Parochial vicar in St. Peter’s Cathedral of San Diego. Many people attend the opening of the fair, and it will last till 8:00 P.M.

Priests Posted by HelloSan Diego- Sunday, June 26, 2005 Yesterday, Patriarch Dally, the chief of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the world arrived to San Diego coming from Detroit Michigan at 12:00 P.M. At the airport welcomed his coming Fr. Sabri the Vicar General of St. Peter Catholic Diocese –USA, along with Fr. Felix Shabi the Parochial Vicar in St. Peter’s Cathedral in El Cajon, and Fr. Rayan Atto, a visitor priest who came from Rome for pastoral experience. Number of the parish councils were present at the airport, they received he patriarch with flowers and cheering. At the Cathedral was waiting for the arrival of the Patriarch Fr. Michael Bazzi the pastor of the Cathedral, the subdeacons of the cathedral, along with almost 160 faithful, who they were waiting for these historical unrepeatable moments. The patriarch thanked the Eparchial bishop Mar Sarhad Jammo and Bishop Ibrahim Ibrahim of St. Thomas Chaldean Diocese- USA, all the priests, and the Chaldean people for the nice reception made for him. The Patriarch of Babylon Emmanuel III is staying till july 11 in the us, then he will continue his global visit to Australia then he’ll be back to our home land, to Mesopotamia.

About Me

Fr. Felix Shabi
I was Born in "Karemlash", near Mosul, Iraq 1975. In 1992 I entered "Simon Peter Seminary" of the "Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon" in Baghdad and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1998. I worked in the Chaldean Diocese of Mosul between 1998 and 1999 as a pastor of St. Joseph parish in the time of Archbishop George Garmo. In the summer of 1999 I received a scholarship from my diocese to study in Rome. I joined the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Rome (Pontificio Istituto Orientale) for just over two years and gained a master's degree in the canon law of the Eastern Churches. Arriving in United States of America on Thanksgiving Day Nov 27, 2002, I was named a parochial vicar of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in San Diego California. On February 2006 I went back to Rome to pursue my doctoral studies. After five years on my pastoral service in the new diocese, I was ordained Chorbishop of the Diocesan Chancery of St. Peter Eparchy on December 07, 2007 by his Excellency bishop Sarhad Y. Jammo. I am still working as a diocesan chancellor since then ...